Diamond Tooth Taxidermy Blog:

I finally got around to working on a bear-skin rug for a client; she is another really fun individual to work with who basically said, "make it as glitzy and shiny as possible."

Words to live by.

So I set out to source materials and make the sparkliest, most pizazzified bear-skin rug the world has seen.

I bought the skin frmo a hunter who shot the bear with a bow and arrow, harvesting the animal for food. The cape arrived tanned and fairly soft but I had to rehydrate some parts to soften them up more in order to work with the facial areas.

Opal the cat approves of this fur.

Here is the head form. I altered it slightly to express a nice Elvis-like lip curl, and proceeded to plaster the top left fang with crystals.

Diamond Tooth, indeed! And this is just the beginning. Stay tuned for an update on this hunka hunka burning work in progress.